“Once you tell a lie, you have to keep tellin’ and tellin’ and tellin’ to make it stand.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“The older I get, the less I care what people think of me, but I care a great deal about people knowing my business.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“Sometimes the debt you pay ain't exactly the one you owe, but it works out jus' the same anyway. Lord knows I done caused my share of heartache in this life.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“Once a lie is told, you have to keep on telling it. You not only have to repeat it time and time again, you have to embellish it, layer upon layer until you don‘t even remember the truth.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“I reckon I'm the bes' judge of that. Sometimes the debt you pay ain't exactly the one you owe, but it works out jus' the same anyway. Lord knows I done caused my share of heartache in this life.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“The people of Mayville didn’t know his name at all, until he was arrested and charged with the murder of a sixteen year old boy named Skipper Kornegay.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“Just about the time we finally smelled fall in the air the family grocery store downtown succumbed to the rise of the supermarket. Neither Blanche nor I were able to walk the mile or so it now took to get groceries, so I started taking a cab to the Winn Dixie store. The wide variety of choices was overwhelming at first and it often took over two hours to finish my marketing. Blanche pitched a fit the first time I did that. "Law, Miss Ora, you 'bout”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“The events of that year were the real driving force behind the mass exodus from the neighborhood. It was the year of the Pecan Man. None of us knew how much impact one skinny old colored man could have in our lives, but we found out soon enough.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“When you're as old as I am, it takes a while to make a point. The Pecan Man had a name - Eldred Mims. I called him Eddie. The people of Mayville didn’t know his name at all, until he was arrested and charged with the murder of a sixteen year old boy named Skipper Kornegay.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“Doing the right thing is apparently harder than it sounds when politics are involved.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“Street. I thought maybe he picked up money”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
“We were quite a team, I thought. One starts a task and the other finishes without a word being spoken.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, quote from The Pecan Man
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“let Him run things the way He knows best, according to His will. Trust Him, Missy. Trust that everything you done for Him and everything you gave up for Him has a purpose. God will give it all meaning in the end.”
― Lynn Austin, quote from Candle in the Darkness
“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Lonesome Gods
“The continent has embraced a spiritual death long before the demographic one. In those seventeen European countries that have fallen into the "lowest-low fertility," where are the children? In a way, you're looking at them: the guy sipping espresso at a sidewalk cafe listening to his iPod, the eternal adolescent charges of the paternalistic state. The government makes the grown-up decisions and we spend our pocket money on our record collection...the long-term cost of welfare is the infantilization of the population. The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV package, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of their health care. It's a curious inversion of citizenship to demand control over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government. And it's hard to come up with a wake-up call for a society as dedicated as latter-day Europe to the belief that life is about sleeping in.”
― Mark Steyn, quote from America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“ideologically fascist and progressive totalitarianism was never a mere doctrine of statism. Rather, it claimed that the state was the natural brain of the organic body politic.”
― Jonah Goldberg, quote from Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“And lying there, her hair in damp strands across her crumpled face, Harriet gave up the long, long struggle to love her father and her aunt.
"It was for this loss above all that she wept. She had learned, during the long years of her childhood, to live without receiving love. To live without giving it seemed more than she could bear.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from A Company of Swans
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